Street marker



Aug. 9, 1932. J. s. GEORGE STREET MARKER Filed DEC. 12. 1928 lNvENoR' lci ATTORNEYS Patented Aug. 9, 1932 y i Lemmi UNITED STATES i1 ATENTOrmes f JAMES s. GEORGE, or WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT,`AssIGNOR To sCOvILLMANUFAC- TUBING COMPANY, or WATERBURY, CONNECTTCUT, A CORPORATION or.CONNECT- ICUT STREET MARKER Application led December 12, 1.928. v.Serial No. S25-,618.

` proper direction of traffic or other desired purposes.

It is the especial object of the present invention to provide a streetmarker having a head of substantial area which will project L' slightlyabove the pavement so as to be readily vislble, in combination with asimple means for anchoring the marker in the pavement of the street inwhich it is to be used.

It is a further ob] ect of the invention to pro- -1 vide an anchoringmeans which may be associated with the marker for shipment ready for useand which may be caused to anchor the marker in position by pressureapplied to the head of the marker, as, for instance, by a blow of ahammer or the like.

With these and other objects notV speciiically referred to, theinvention consists in certain novel parts, arrangements and combinationswhich will be described in connection with the accompanying drawing andthe novel features pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.

In the drawing- Figure l is a perspective view of a marker shown withthe anchoring means associated therewith. y

Figure 2 is a side View of the marker and its anchoring means set in thestreet before the anchoring meanshave beenspread to anchor the marker;and

Figure 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing the marker and theanchoring means in inal position.

Referring now to the drawing, a marker embodying the invention willinclude gen erally a head, a sha-nk, and an anchoring member. The headOf the marker may, of course, have various shapes. In the particularmarker shown, the head l of the marker is circular, having a slightlyrounded surface 2, so as to permit the passage of trafiic thereover,this head being of substantial area as to be clearly visible. From thisheadrdepends a shank 3, the lower end of which is provided with aplurality of anchor- 'ing lingers 4, four such fingers being shown.

These fingers maybe formed in any suitable manner, asfbyc'utting outjthemetal of the shank, and the fingers preferably taper downwardly, asindicated at 5.' `These ngers act to anchor the marker in placewhenspread or moved outwardly, and to effect this, there is provided aspreader which acts to spread the fingers from the position shown inFig. 2 tothat shown in Fig. 3, upon theapplication of pressure"yap-plied to the head 2 of the marker. Y i' WhileV theV construction ofthis spreader may'bevaried, in accordance with one feature of theinvention, thev spreader is y'of such a character that it can beassembled with the shank' of the'marker at the factory for shipmentready for use, so that no assembling of the parts-is necessary at thepoint where the marker is placed in the pavement. vIn the particularconstruction illustrated, this spreader is inthe form of a member havinga cone-shaped vspreading surface k6 from which rises a short head 7. Inassembling the parts, the short-head is inserted between the ends of thelegs or fingers 4, the'lower ends of which are then slightly bent in, asshown i'n Fig. 2, so as to hold the spreader in assembled relation withthe shank of the marker. l The parts can thus be shipped assembledwithout danger ofthe spreader being lost.V f

Inthe use ofthe device, a hole 8 of the required depth is boredo'rotherwise formed in the pavement/9, the hole being dimensioned toreceive the shank and spreader as at'lO. The marker with the spreader isinserted in this hole and is ydriven into .position by a blow from ahammer applied to the head of the Vmarker. y This results in driving thelegs or fingers 4 down onto the cone-shaped surface G of the spreader,causing them to assume the position shown in Fig. 3, in which thefingers enter the underream of the hole and securely anchorl the markerin place.

It will be seen that with the construction shown and described, a verysimple and efflcient device for the purpose has been provided, One offew parts, and one in which the parts can be assembled by the manufacmiYsoV

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turer ready for use, and Y which can be anchored in position simply bypressure applied to the surface of the marker.

lVhile the particular marker shown and g,- described embodies theinvention in a preferred form,it will be understood that variousehangesmay be made in the shape of the marker and the cooperatingpartsivithoutdeparting from theinvention as defined l@ in theappendedclaims. 1 p

'Vhat is claimedis: l

l. As a new article of manufacture, a street Y marker comprising a head,a depending-hdl# low shank having eXpansible projections, and

5 a spreader Within theshaiik between Vthe projections, said spreaderhaving a conical portion flaring downwardly fromthe-projeetions andaheadrabove the upper'conical end, the Aprojection tips being indentedinwardly to gg; engage between theponcal portion andhead and lock thespreader imposition.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a street Y marker comprising a metalhead of considerable dimensions adaptedto .rest against the surface ofAa pavement when inposition, a

relatively `short shank depend-ingfrom the head and provided with aplurality ofspaced expansible projections, Yagspreader plug 1oeatedWithin the projections vand Yhaving a bottom flattened to rest 'on -th'ebottom of a holerin the pavement, said spreader having a Cone-shapedlower portion .extending upwardly and inwardly at an acute 'ang-le, :theprojections ,on the shank `beingarrangedto engage the upperend of thecone-shaped -ace ofthe spreader before dri-ving. so that when pressureis applied to the Vmarker head the projectionsslide down the tapered`sides of the cone, and all the project-ions are thus spread intolocking engagementwith the pavement vand are positively driven `incontinuously Widening arcsso that all the Vproj ections are engagedinithe pavement and the marker isfirmly locked inposition.

[fr 3. A street marker havinga head arranged to engage the pavement,a'shank depending from the head, spaced ingers on the shan-k havingytapered and slightly inturned ends, and a spreader 'heldtotheshan-kbythe'projections `and .having an Aexpanding ysurface acting Yto forcetheends ofitheprojections outwardly'to engage in the pavement whenpressure is applieditolthehead.

In testimony-whereof, Ihave hereunto set myrhand. f Y

- Y v 'JAMES S. GEORGE.

